More ghosts
The Ninth Ghost Book. Edited by Rosemary Timperley. Barrie and Jenkins. 284 pp.
The latest in a popular series of anthologies of new ghost stories, The Ninth Ghost Book contains 16 tales displaying a wide range of talents and an equally diverse array of settings and themes. In quality they range from the succinct and stylish contribution by L. P. Hartley, “The Strain on the Chair," to the flippantly woman’s-magazinish “The Spirit was Willing,’ by Kay Batchelor. In deference to one of the obsessions of our age there are two tales about haunted cars, while houses remain popular. This reviewer cannot claim that any of the tales raised the hair on the nape of his neck, but as a collection they make entertaining diversionary reading. The most horrific ghost stories, it seems, come into the category of non-fiction.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33448, 1 February 1974, Page 20
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140More ghosts Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33448, 1 February 1974, Page 20
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